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ob·stet·rics 
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Audio Help [uhb-ste-triks] Pronunciation Key –noun (used with a singular verb)
) | the branch of medical science concerned with childbirth and caring for and treating women in or in connection with childbirth. Abbreviation: OB, ob |
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Obstetrics
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| ob·stet·rics
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n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recuperative period following delivery. |
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obstetrics
1819, from obstetric (adj.), 1742, from Mod.L. obstetricus "pertaining to a midwife," from obstetrix (gen. obstetricis) "midwife," lit. "one who stands opposite (the woman giving birth)," from obstare "stand opposite to" (see obstacle). The true adjective would be obstetricic, "but only pedantry would take exception to obstetric at this stage of its career." [Fowler]
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| obstetrics | |
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| the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother |
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obstetrics [obˈstetriks] noun singular
the science of helping women before, during, and after, the birth of babies
See also: obstetrician
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| obstetrics
Audio Help (ŏb-stět'rĭks) Pronunciation Key
The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth. |
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obstetrics [(uhb-ste-triks)]
A branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, labor, and the period of recovery following childbirth.
[Chapter:] Medicine and Health
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obstetrics ob·stet·rics (ŏb-stět'rĭks, əb-)
n.
Abbr. OB
The branch of medicine that deals with the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recuperative period following delivery.
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Main Entry: ob·stet·rics
Pronunciation: &b-'ste-triks, äb-
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
: a branch ofmedical science that deals with birth and with its antecedents and sequelae
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Obstetrics
Ob*stet"rics\, n. [Cf. F. obst['e]trique. See Obstetric.] The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
obstetrics
obstetrics: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
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